Courthouses serve as the center of many government, legal, and community activities. They can also be vulnerable to threats of violence for all who use them. Join us to learn effective strategies and best practices to enhance a collaborative courthouse security philosophy. Gather tools and resources from current state and federal court services experts related to security planning, jury and witness safety considerations, and threat assessment and management. Presenters include experts in the areas law enforcement, state and federal attorneys, judges and other court services professionals.
Do you understand the dynamics of your courthouse? Are you involved in scenario based training related to your courthouse security? Jim Brigham shares three critical issues related to enhancing security in your courthouse.
Protective Security Details (PSD) and physical security measures in the courthouse requires a deliberate approach to prevent injury, embarrassment, or disruption of court proceedings. This course will focus on planning and executing safety protocols to protect all courtroom participants (both prior to, during and after court proceedings). Focus will include security measures for tribal courts, community courts, court commissioner areas, municipal courts, and more formal state court structures.
Explore the elements of conducting successful comprehensive security surveys and design for businesses, government offices, college campuses and schools, houses of worship and residences within your community. Focus will be on developing organizational, mechanical, and natural security measures. This course relates to law enforcement, security officials, architectural design specialists and other government officials looking to improve security in their community buildings.
Enhance and build knowledge regarding the use of and development of safety plans for victims of child abuse including physical, emotional and sexual abuse as well as neglect. Provide disciplines within multi-disciplinary teams to develop plans to help attend to the safety of children who have been subjected to abuse and neglect. Identify the key elements to consider when contemplating or developing a safety plan. Recognize what it means to make a safety plan, who can make a safety plan, be a part of the safety plan, and what, if any, documentation do I need when putting a safety plan in place.
Learn how tribal courts can develop integrated Domestic Violence Courts to adjudicate all aspects of cases involving Domestic Violence including protection orders, violation of those orders, child custody and visitation, property issues and other aspects to avoid conflicting orders and ensure victim safety.
Join us to learn about office and field techniques to maintain safety during sex offender registration.
Detective Agnes Watson, Rialto Police Department in California, gained critical insights and resources at the 2022 National Missing and Unidentified Persons Conference to better aid in the investigation and safe recovery of a missing teenager abducted from her home. Watch the video testimonial to hear about this case and lessons learned. The 2025 conference will be held in Las Vegas, April 15-17, and will feature breakout sessions, plenary sessions, and daily keynote presentations delivered by experts in the field of missing persons.
Provide participants with the knowledge and tools to better serve victims of crime. The goal of this conference is to provide examples of positive victim assistance programs as well as resources for multidisciplinary approaches to serving victims of crime. Attend this conference to build upon your services and systems to best fit the needs of our communities.
Often times, the biggest role of a facility dog is to calm and support an individual during stressful situations. Learn what a facility dog is and how they are being used particularly as a school resource officer partner in K-12 schools and/or in tribal court settings. The process to obtain and train a dog, subjective observations, and data collected will be discussed.
